[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheltenham Borough.

  • Cheltenham (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheltenham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MIDWIFERY AND MATERNITY SERVICES, 1945. Number of Midwives in the area of the Local Supervising Authority and number of cases attended by them during the year and the capacity in which they attended. Nature of Employment of Midwives No. of Mid wives practising at end of ’.94,S C.-VSES .VrTENDED t \ Location and Number In In In Domi- Instit- lotals Capacity in which Own Instit- Totals ciliary ution Midwives acted Home tition (A) Employed in Institutions As Midw.veS _ 1009 1009 by Gloucestershire C.C. - 16 16 As Maternity Nurses - - - (B) Employed by Voluntary Associations- (V'ctoria Home) (i) Under arrangements made in pursuance of Section 1 of the As Midwives 187 - 187 Midwives Act 1936 5 - 5 As Maternity 59 59 (District) Nurses As Midwives _ 136 136 (ii) Others (Ward) - 5 5 As Maternity Nurses — 25 25 As Midwives 60 30 90 *(C) In private practice 4 10 14 As Maternity N urses 60 557 617 As Midwives 247 1175 1422 Totals 9 31 40 As Maternity Nurses 119 582 701 V J Combined 40 Totals 366 1757 2123 Estimated Number of Domiciliary Births during the year in the area of the Local Supervising Authority ... 381 * Classified according to normal practice. Some of these Midwives attend cases under both headings. Total Number of Births. During 1945 there were 2,075 live and 72 still births in this Borough making a total of 2,147 births. Out of these 922 were born in the large County Maternity Home, Sunnyside. Only 372 births took place in the home of the parent. Maternal IDeaths numbered four : three of these were non-residents so that they are not included in the local Vital Statistics. The other case was that of a person who died in another area and this is included in the Cheltenham figures,